Paintings and reflections that share a nurse’s personal experience of illness In the summer of 2013, Cortney Davis, a nurse practitioner and author who often writes about her interactions with patient
From 1865 to 1945, a number of prominent marriages united American heiresses and members of the British aristocracy. In Informal Ambassadors, author Dana Cooper examines the lives and marriages of the
A Self-Evident Lie explores and underscores the fear and complex meaning of “slavery” to northerners before the Civil War. Many northerners asked: If slavery was the beneficent and paternalistic insti
From the 1910s through the 1930s, Midwestern writers were conspicuously prominent in American literary life. A generation of writers from the Midwest had come of age and had shared an important and mo
A comprehensive history of the relationship between the United States and reformist Uruguay Despite its fascinating history, the attention paid by North American historians to Uruguay, a nation nestle
The struggle to define U.S. national identity through a political conflict in Spain “An unusually original book that challenges established assumptions and reveals the complexity of American reactions
During the 1870s, the organization and stewardship of American culture by the upper classes began to take hold on a mass scale, due in part to the founding of museums, municipal libraries, symphony ha
A new perspective on the cultural politics of Charles Brockden Brown The novels of Charles Brockden Brown, the most accomplished literary figure in early America, redefined the gothic genre and helped
The first and only biography of one of America’s greatest conservationists -- Akron native and former U.S. Representative John F. Seiberling (1918–2008) grew up on his family’s estate overlooking Ohio
Explores the ways literature and philosophy enrich each other’s inquiry into the human condition“I applaud the novel ways in which Dooley brings to life the interchanges between philosophy and literat
The author travels around Ohio in an attempt to uncover missing pieces of the past where rural America converges with small cities, fading history, and disappearing culture, in an offbeat journey arou
A Singing Ambivalence is a comprehensive examination of the ways in which nine immigrant groups—Irish, Germans, Scandinavians, Eastern European Jews, Italians, Poles, Hungarians, Chinese, and Mexicans
By the early nineteenth century clear definitions had developed regarding how American women and men were supposed to appear in public and how they were meant to lead their lives. As men's style of dr
Traces the efforts by a group of scholars, philanthropists, publicists, and jurists to reverse the US Senate's rejection of membership in the League of Nations. Combines information on individuals and
Melville has long been regarded as an author of raw genius who knew, or cared, little about the art of the novel, and even harbored hostility toward its conventions. In The Weaver-God, He Weaves, Chri
Having previously tied the world record, Eddie Hart was a strong favorite to win the 100-meter dash at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany. Then the inexplicable happened: he was disqualified after a
Each year in the United States, hundreds of religious buildings and schools become vacant or underutilized as congregations and populations merge, move, or diminish. These structures are often well lo
Gripping re-examination of the rendition of Anthony Burns On June 2, 1854, crowds lined the streets of Boston, hissing and shouting at federal authorities as they escorted the fugitive slave Anthony B
A fresh perspective on Hemingway’s workEarly in his career, when To Have and Have Not was published, Ernest Hemingway’s portrayal of themes, setting, and character was often compared to Cezanne’s art—
The first modern biography of this notable politician“Mach’s detailed and thoughtful examination of Ohio lawyer-politician-diplomat George Hunt Pendleton is an impressive piece of scholarship and will
Robin Odell's Ripperology is the first study to present a sequential history of literary investigations of Jack the Ripper's crimes and to address the seven principal phases of Ripper speculations: t
In the first half of the 20th century, American society mobilized for the three great wars: World War I, World War II, and the Cold War. During this tumultuous period the Brethren in Christ joined oth
This new collection finds photographer James Jeffery Higgins exploring the fading farms and small towns of the Ohio Valley.Higgins’s photographs capture the beauty and majesty of the landscape and the
This study investigates how Japan grew from an economically limited country to the threshold of industrial power. The author describes Japanese economic development in the 1950s as one of the major ac
Sermons as historical documents reflect the thoughts, emotions, values, prejudices, and beliefs of their time. "The more popular a preacher, the more likely it is that she or he mirrors the hopes and
A US Naval Aviators odyssey through pivotal moments in 20th-century historyThe rise of Adolf Hitler, Americas Great Depression in the heartland, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, American life following Wo
Following the 1957 season, two of baseball’s most famous teams, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants,left the city they had called home since the 19th century and headed west. The Dodgers went
In one of her escapades as a reporter for Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, the renowned Nellie Bly feigned insanity in 1889 and slipped, undercover, behind the grim walls of Blackwell's Island mental
During the summer of 1864 a Union column, commanded by Maj. Gen. Andrew Jackson Smith, set out from Tennessee with a goal that had proven impossible in all prior attempts - to find and defeat the cava
In the spring of 1933, the United States was in the midst of the worst economic calamity it had ever experienced. Newly inaugurated president Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to approve funding al
A volume of correspondence between a prominent father and his accomplished daughters Married three times, Salmon P. Chase lost four children in infancy. Two daughters survived to adulthood and were th
